WHY CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF FILIPINO WOMEN AND CHILDREN

• An estimated 20 million people, 90% women and children, are in the global sex trade

• The Philippines is the world's top exporter of women. In 2005, 750,000 women were exported to over 203 countries. 30% of the women being exported from the Philippines end up in the sex trade.

• While both Filipinos and Filipinas work overseas, the women stay abroad longer as their job contracts are more open-ended and their work continuing.

• Roughly 60% of Filipinas who leave for overseas become domestic labor--cleaning, cooking, taking care of the children of families who can afford servants.

• The second largest most probable work for Filipinas who go abroad is in the sex trade.

• More than half-million Filipina adults and children are in the sex trade in the Philippines, catering to tourists, American GIs on R & R, and local males.

• One-hundred fifty-thousand (150,000) Filipinas work in brothel houses, strip joints, bars and nightclubs in Japan, under the control of the Yakuza. When this practice started, the women were sold at $2,400-$8,000--an amount the women have to pay back to the owner.

• The Philippine government does little or nothing about these facts because part of the annual $8 billion remitted to the archipelago comes from prostituting these women.

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